Culture

Mucem in Marseille hosts an exhibition by contemporary artist Jeff Koons

Marseille (France), May 7 (EFE) .- (Camera: Martí Rodríguez) "Why are you afraid of the judgments of others?" Asks the American artist Jeff Koons, who wishes that his exhibition at the Mucem museum from Marseille, "Jeff Koons Mucem", make the visitors ask the same question.FOOTAGE OF THE EXHIBITION OF THE ARTIST JEFF KOONS AT THE MUCEM IN MARSEILLE. SOUNDBITES IN ENGLISH OF JEFF KOONS, CONTEMPORARY ARTIST AND ÉMILIE GIRARD, EXHIBITION MANAGER, IN FRENCH.TRANSLATIONS:-The Mucem is a museum that deals with western and Mediterranean civilization, but also popular culture. And Jeff Koons is an artist who has always put his aspirations in popular culture, sometimes with American references but also with some that transcend borders. That is why we wanted to collaborate with him and we proposed to him to work with the Mucem Collection of French and European Popular Art.-We have tried to create contrasts that are both formal, aesthetic, semantic, and poetic, to finally show how an object is plastic, polysemic material, which can be reinterpreted and from which we can teach a variety of nuances: one can be interested in the use of an object, but also because of its shape, its aesthetics, its color.